Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tackling Wicked Problems
This week’s presenter for the ISSIP SIG Education & Research Service Evangelist Series is Professor Gerald Midgley, Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise, Hull University Business School, University of Hull. In the enterprise…
From The Eponymous Pickle
TIBCO BPM Systems
TIBCO BPM Offerings: Brought to my attention and attended an introductory seminar: Nimbus and ActiveMatrix.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Colleagues for Smarter Aging
Presentation today from Cognitive Systems Institute on the idea of a 'Digital Colleague', by Polly Tremoulet, Drexel of University - "Digital Colleagues for Smart Aging". This uses simplified sensors to aid a aging population…
From insideHPC
Optimizing Navier-Stokes Equations
Solving Navier-Sokes equations are popular because they describe the physics of in a number of areas of interest to scientists and engineers. By solving these equations, the flow velocity can be calculated, and then other quantities…
From insideHPC
Video: Application Experiences on DDN’s IME Burst Buffer
"The DDN Infinite Memory Engine (IME) unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough, software defined storage application introduces a whole new new tier of transparent, extendable, non-volatile memory (NVM), that…
From Schneier on Security
New Zealand's XKEYSCORE Use
The Intercept and the New Zealand Herald have reported that New Zealand spied on communications about the World Trade Organization director-general candidates. I'm not sure why this is news; it seems like a perfectly reasonable…
From BLOG@CACM
The Three Faces of Cyberwar
The different aspects of cyberwar, and what can be done about them.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fujitsu Thin Solar Powered IOT Beacon
Solar powering in particular is interesting. We will continue to see developments of this type.Fujitsu develops thin, solar-powered IoT beaconIn a move that could help spread IoT (Internet of Things) devices, Fujitsu has developed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Graphs for Business
Starting to think more rigorously about the definition and delivery of occupations. It is natural to think about work that has already been done to understand the formal work and social interactions of people in their jobs.…
From insideHPC
Video: Increasing Cluster Throughput while Reducing Energy Consumption for GPU Workloads
"The use of GPUs to accelerate applications is mainstream nowadays, but their adoption in cur- rent clusters presents several drawbacks. In this talk we present the last developments of the rCUDA remote GPU virtualization framework…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior HPC GRID Engineer at PDT Partners
The PDT team – a proprietary quantitative investment manager – is seeking a highly-talented senior HPC engineer. The Senior GRID Engineer will be a primary point of contact for the research teams using the GRID and will interface…
From insideHPC
HPC and Software Modernization
"As we see Moore’s Law alive and well, more and more parallelism is introduced into all computing platforms and on all levels of integration and programming to achieve higher performance and energy efficiency. We will discuss…
From Putting People First
Gov.uk’s open policy making toolkit – practical guidance on ethnography and more
The Gov.uk open policy making toolkit is a practical guide to techniques that can help you make better policy. The toolkit, which brings together the latest techniques to improve making and delivering policy, is based on the …
From Putting People First
Sensemaking in organizations: Reflections on Karl Weick and social theory
Over the past couple of decades, a small number of psychologists, communication theorists, and organizational scientists have articulated ideas of sensemaking into theories, frames, and methods that we can and probably should…
From Putting People First
How would drivers’ habits change in self-driving cars?
University of North Texas students, guided by Professor Christina Wasson and highly acclaimed corporate anthropologist Dr. Brigitte Jordan of Nissan’s Research Center in Silicon Valley to find out how people use their cars. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customizing Project Management
A change by Oracle. A natural idea to change project management by business line. I would like to see the same done by business process.
From The Eponymous Pickle
BPM lntegrating IBM Watson, A Starting point for Modeling and Improvement
Integrate IBM BPM with IBM Watson, Part 1 ... by Raj Mehra, IBM Senior Architect. ... Improve decision making in process applications with the Question .... and Answer service on IBM Bluemix. I am taking a closer look in conversations…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Services on BlueMix Creating Collective Intelligence
Results from the collaborative work between IBM and Twitter. Relates to other things I have posted here recently on User Modeling. To what degree does Twitter act as 'Collective intelligence'? will continue to follow. …
From Computational Complexity
News Aplenty
Both the Turing Award and the Abel Prize were announced this morning. MIT databases researcher Michael Stonebraker wins the ACM Turing Award. He developed INGRES one of the first relational databases. Stonebraker is the first…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Schemes to Revolutize Nuclear Power
A favorite topic. A good summary from the IEEE to improve the options. " ... Three Schemes to Revolutionize Nuclear Power ... The future of nuclear energy could lie with supersmall reactors and alternative technologies ...…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Data Center Steering Group
The Open Data Center Alliance Welcomes The Coca-Cola Company And Intel To Steering Group by Priya Rana The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the global organization where members work together to advance the deployment of enterprise…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Opens HPC Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Readies SuperMUC Phase 2
Today Lenovo announced the opening of the company’s first global HPC innovation center, offering a permanent R&D and application benchmarking site as well as a new ecosystem of partners that will collaborate on projects to bring…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
FizzBuzz Revisited
I first blogged about using FizzBuzz in the classroom four years ago when I didn’t have a classroom and students of my own to use it with. (FizzBuzz–A Programming Question) Well times have changed and today I did assign the project…
From insideHPC
Going from the Lab to the Data Center
In the late 1980s, genomic sequencing began to shift from wet lab work to a computationally intensive science; by end of the 1990s this trend was in full swing. The application of computer science and high performance computing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Michael Stonebraker Receives 2014 ACM Turing Award
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) congratulates Michael Stonebraker from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on receiving the 2014 ACM Turing Award for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Accelerating intersections with SIMD instructions
Most people have a mental model of computation based on the Turing machine. The computer does one operation at a time. For example, maybe it adds two numbers and outputs the result. In truth, most modern processor cores are superscalar…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G on Digital Marketing
P&G Chief Brand Officer Talks Digital Marketing By Nicole GiannopoulosWhile speaking at the Association of National Advertisers' Media Leadership Conference yesterday (5 March), Pritchard said that the use of digital technology…
From Schneier on Security
Capabilities of Canada's Communications Security Establishment
There's a new story about the hacking capabilities of Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE), based on the Snowden documents....
From insideHPC
How Supercomputers Give Universities a Competitive Edge
In an NSF-funded study, a Clemson University team found that universities with locally available supercomputers were more efficient in producing research in critical fields than universities that lacked supercomputers.
The post…From insideHPC
Internet of Things & What it Means to Fabrics
In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer’s Workshop, Guy Ailee from Intel presents: Internet of Things & What it Means to Fabrics.
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